{"author":"Ron Rash","author_id":"Ron+Rash","total_quotes":24,"quotes":[{"text":"Others can make us vulnerable and the sooner such vulnerabilities are dealt with the better.","author":"Ron Rash","tags":["feelings","humans","love","vulnerable"],"id":3361,"author_id":"Ron+Rash"},{"text":"Not for the first time, it occurred to me that sorrow could be purified into song the same way a piece of coal is purified into a diamond.","author":"Ron Rash","tags":["music","pain","sorrow"],"id":19348,"author_id":"Ron+Rash"},{"text":"She had not remembered then what she remembers now, a memory like something buried in river silt that finally works free and rises to the surface...","author":"Ron Rash","tags":["memories"],"id":40003,"author_id":"Ron+Rash"},{"text":"What about you, Snipes?' Dunbar asked. 'You think there to be mountain lions up here or is it just folks' imaginings?'Snipes pondered the question a few moments before speaking.They's many a man of science would claim there aint because you got no irredeemable evidence like panther scat or fur or tooth or tail. In other words, some part of the animal in questions. Or better yet having the actual critter itself, the whole think kit and caboodle head to tail, which all your men of science argue is the best proof of all a thing exists, whether it be a panther, or a bird, or even a dinosaur.'To put it another way, if you was to stub your toe and tell the man of science what happened he'd not believe a word of it less he could see how it'd stoved up or was bleeding. But your philosophers and theologians and such say there’s things in the world that’s every bit as real even though you can’t see them.”Like what?” Dunbar asked.Well,” Snipes said. “They’s love, that’s one. And courage. You can’t see neither of them, but they’re real. And air, of course. That’s one of your most important examples. You wouldn’t be alive a minute if there wasn’t air, but nobody’s ever seen a single speck of it.”… “All I’m saying is there is a lot more to this old world than meets the eye.”… “And darkness. You can’t see it no more than you can see air, but when its all around you sure enough know it.” (Serena, 65-66).","author":"Ron Rash","tags":["belief","courage","darkness","faith","love","philosophy","science"],"id":47362,"author_id":"Ron+Rash"},{"text":"Don't love anything that can be taken away.","author":"Ron Rash","tags":["loss","love"],"id":65369,"author_id":"Ron+Rash"},{"text":"It struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when you’d eaten the same thing. Reminded you there were good days in life, when precious little else did. (268).","author":"Ron Rash","tags":["bad-times","comfort","food","good-times"],"id":89137,"author_id":"Ron+Rash"},{"text":"A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world.","author":"Ron Rash","tags":["death","people","places","tragedy","violence"],"id":95057,"author_id":"Ron+Rash"},{"text":"We want what's in this world but we also want what ain't.","author":"Ron Rash","tags":["belief","impossible-things","life","possible","the-world"],"id":102312,"author_id":"Ron+Rash"},{"text":"It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185).","author":"Ron Rash","tags":["darkness","enlightenment","ignorance","philosophy","science","sight"],"id":157307,"author_id":"Ron+Rash"},{"text":"What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... It's amazing how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could finally endure it. After more time passed you could let yourself remember, even want to remember. But even then what you felt those first days could return and remind you the grief was still there, like old barbed wire embedded in a tree's heartwood.","author":"Ron Rash","tags":["grief","life","loss","love","pain","sadness"],"id":179759,"author_id":"Ron+Rash"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}